Kaixin – The people we speak to, including students, couldn’t give a rat’s bum whether Google stays or goes. If Google wants to compete in China it has to accept that it is in China and abide by their law and culture. From yesterday’s comments,

On what basis does America assume such moral superiority? It holds itself up as the ideal after which all should follow. Yet, it is a self appointed role. Its moral superiority is self-awarded. It all exists within the collective mind of America.

The collective American mind would recoil if China assumed such moral superiority and proceeded to tell America what its values should be.

Indeed, when China protests about single issues that it regards as going to its core interests, America ignores it, quite rightly so. Yet, that is exactly what America is doing on a much larger and more profound scale. Not on core single issues, but on general moral and philosophical grounds.

So, why shouldn’t China simply take the same approach as America, and ignore it. Certainly, China should not comply simply because America opines from its lofty stance.

Kaixin – As China says, Western companies are free to come and free to go. All they have to do is abide by the laws of China. As I noted above, the supply of rat’s rear ends from China over these issues is non-existent.